. The Street railway journal . e object of two meters in series is to permit one to checkthe other. The price paid for current is 234 cents per watt hour,making the cost per car average, with eighteen cars inservice, from $ to $ per day. The cars cover fromlie to 125 miles per day each. The company has recently secured 225 acres in theneighborhood of the city, where a handsome park will belocated. The City Electric Railway Company, of Decatur, 111.,has recently established a handsome transfer house nearthe center of the city where line connections are house is octagonal in sha
. The Street railway journal . e object of two meters in series is to permit one to checkthe other. The price paid for current is 234 cents per watt hour,making the cost per car average, with eighteen cars inservice, from $ to $ per day. The cars cover fromlie to 125 miles per day each. The company has recently secured 225 acres in theneighborhood of the city, where a handsome park will belocated. The City Electric Railway Company, of Decatur, 111.,has recently established a handsome transfer house nearthe center of the city where line connections are house is octagonal in shape and cost about $3000. The operation of the Eenox Avenue line of theMetropolitan Street Railway Company, of New York, wascontinued without interference during the heavy snow-storm of Mar. 11. This was owing partly to the fact thata sweeper kept the road fairly clear from snow, though attimes the snow was quite deep on the tracks. It is statedthat throughout the storm no electrical trouble of any kinddeveloped in the street Railway Repair Shops. be kept at hand, store rooms must be ample, well arranged and stocked with all of the many supplies requisite for the Ninth Pahcr—Repair Shops of the West Oiiea^o Street renewals of the various kinds of equipment. It is under Railway Companv. such circumstances that the management is taxed to keep the repair shops running on the most economical and con- By W. Frank Carr. servative basis, keeping down that enormous expense which radical changes always entail, at the same time The West Chicago Street Railway Company operates keeping pace with the times. Concentration is the rule approximately 196 miles of the Yerkes system and prac- here, the management evidently behevnig that thereby the tically controls besides the West Division Railway, the force of men required is decreased and consequent expense
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